AGENDA

City of Modesto

SPECIAL FINANCE COMMITTEE / WORKSHOP

Second Floor, Room 2005

1010 10th Street

Modesto, California

Monday, April 28, 2008 at 5:30 p.m.

Roll Call:    Brad Hawn, Chair

Kristin Olsen, Vice Chair

Garrad Marsh

Alternates: Janice Keating, Dave Lopez, Will O’Bryant, Jim Ridenour

Council has not delegated directive or final approval authority to the Committees.  Committee actions are recommendations to the full City Council, not final decisions on an issue.

PUBLIC COMMENTS

Three minute time limit per speaker

Only interested persons in the audience may present these matters. Under State law, Councilmembers may respond to matters being presented under this item only as follows:

a.            Briefly respond to statements made or questions raised.

b.            Ask a question for clarification.

c.            Provide a reference to staff or other resources for factual information.

d.            Request staff to report back at a subsequent meeting.

e.            Finally, a Councilmember or the Council itself may take action to direct staff to place a matter of business on a future agenda.

CONSENT ITEMS – ROLL CALL VOTE REQUIRED:  Items 1 through 4

Information concerning the consent items listed above has been forwarded to each Committee Member prior to this meeting for study. Unless some member of the audience or Committee Member has a question concerning an item and asks that it be withdrawn from the consent list, the Committee approves the items at one time. The action taken by the Committee in approving consent items is set forth in the explanation of this individual item.

Any and all of the following agenda items are subject to action by the Committee/Workshop.

CONSENT ITEMS

An item may be removed from consent and discussed at the request of an audience member or Committee Member.

CONSENT

1.      Consider recommended budget adjustments for the month of April 2008 and refer to City Council for approval.  (Attachment)

CONSENT

2.      Consider supporting recommendation to enter into negotiations with FM Golf and ValleyCrest to exercise the City of Modesto’s right to offer contract extensions as of June 30, 2008.  (Attachment)

CONSENT

3.      Consider receiving informational quarterly update on the Water Meter/Automated Reading Program.  (Attachment)

CONSENT

4.      Consider receiving informational update on the status of the Draft Storm Drainage Master Plan.  (Attachment)

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

5.      Consider accepting update on animal sheltering services and facility needs, and approving recommendation that City staff work with the County and other County cities on (a) the animal shelter replacement project (reuse and expansion) while minimizing up-front costs to the City, and (b) to review the management and operations of the Animal Services Facility, including possible use of outside consultants, to reduce costs and enhance revenue.  (Attachment)

6.      Consider informational report on various revenue options being brought to the Finance Committee’s Budget Workshops as part of the Mayor’s proposed budget.  (Attachment)

7.      Consider various options for repayment of the City of Modesto General Fund loans made between the Modesto Redevelopment Agency and the City of Modesto and recommending to the Redevelopment Agency Board an on-going set repayment schedule between the City and the Redevelopment Agency, and forward to the Agency Board for consideration.  (Attachment)

NEW BUSINESS

8.      Consider endorsing proposed recommendation to amend the Fiscal Year 2008 Operating Budget to appropriate $193,000 from the Gas Tax Reserve to fully fund traffic electrical utility costs for FY 2007-08, and forward to City Council for approval.  (Attachment)

9.      Consider recommending to the City Council that a public hearing be conducted to:

(a)  establish and collect a Public, Education, and Government (PEG) grant fee as provided for in Exhibit E of Ordinance No. 3223-C.S., dated July 5, 2001, entitled “An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Modesto Granting United Cable Television Corporation a Renewal of its Nonexclusive Franchise to Construct, Operate and Maintain a Cable Communications System Within the City of Modesto Subject to the Terms and Conditions Set Forth in the Franchise Renewal Agreement” of $0.75 per cable subscriber, per month, and

(b)  to direct staff to provide sixty (60) days written notice, to all known cable television operators conducting business in the City of Modesto, of the City’s intent to collect grant funds to the maximum allowable amount of $0.75 per subscriber, per month in accordance with Exhibit E of the Cable Television Franchise Renewal Agreement Between the City Of Modesto And United Cable Television Corporation, Effective July 5^th, 2001.  (Attachment)

10.  Consider verbal report from Committee Chair Brad Hawn regarding regional opportunities in water and wastewater utilities and consider next steps. 

MATTERS TOO LATE FOR THE AGENDA

These may be presented by members of the Committee and staff upon determination by a majority vote that an emergency exists, as defined by State law, or by a 2/3 vote that (1) there is a need to take immediate action, and (2) that the need for action came to the City’s attention after the agenda was posted.

ADJOURNMENT

Posted pursuant to Government Code Section 54954.2 on _____________________, 2008, at ____________ by

______________________on the bulletin board at Tenth Street Place.